“He's consistent. A good boyfriend isn’t hot one day and cool the next; he’s consistent with his feelings toward you so you know he’s not about to bolt at any given moment.”— Kate Ferguson, thebolde.com
“He's nice to his mom and the cafeteria lady. This is a cliché for a reason: if a person is truly lovely to the women in his life and the people who help make his life easier, he's going to be lovely when it comes to you, too.”— Hannah Orenstein, seventeen.com
“He never leaves a doubt in your mind that you are the girl for him.”— Alanna Murphy, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don’t owe anyone your kindness until they earn it and even then they have to maintain it.”— G.L. Lambert, amazon.com
“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.”— Patrick Stump, twitter.com
“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time--affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Being kind is being strong. Because kindness makes love richer, it takes away the ego, the neglect, the games and the resentment and replaces them with understanding, compassion, forgiveness and tenderness.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re all just trying to get through this shit storm called life together. Remember that.”— Grace Helbig, amazon.com
“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Usually, I would pretend to be nice, but this morning I feel real, like myself. I feel high, almost like I’m tripping, and I couldn’t fake nice if I tried.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“I believe that all of the things you do for other people, you're actually doing for yourself. Life is like a bank account. Random acts of kindness, telling the truth, being loving, showing up for yourself and others -- these are all deposits. Getting fucked up, fucking other people over, letting you…”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”— Samuel Johnson, amazon.com
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”— William Wordsworth, amazon.com
“I believe what you put into the universe comes back at you times three, which is why I always try only to put good things, not horrible skinny bitch things, into the universe.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com